PlanitExo's Production planning schedules orders coming from your ERP or Excel onto resources step by step, based on each article's routing — while real-time OEE measurement and a digital presence/operation log complete the picture from the shop floor, without paper or spreadsheet juggling.
The trial works best on a desktop computer.
Features
Orders enter the system manually or via Excel import, each article carries a routing of production and post-processing steps, and the Gantt board shows the planned work resource by resource, with drag-and-drop rescheduling.
The system highlights the resources where the next step can be scheduled, sizes each block from the quantity, the OEE % and the changeover time, and flags an order that is still incomplete in red.
Admins can define their own fields on articles, orders and blocks, and the Gantt header shows the sum or the maximum of the selected fields per shift and per day.
Resource locking prevents two people from editing the same resource, while the Weekly plan and Shift totals Excel exports fit into your existing reporting workflows.
Documentation
Every topic of the module in one summary sentence, with a few screenshots — for a quick overview.
Every screen, button, field and interaction, with 36 screenshots (the screenshots show the Hungarian interface) — the detailed, verifiable description.
A short overview for existing Factbird users: terminology, the path of an order from plan to closing, and what to watch out for.
Order upload at production start, starting and closing on the tablet, stop reasons, OEE from Factbird, with 19 screenshots.
Project-type work (e.g. toolmaking, development, maintenance) is scheduled by the same Gantt engine — with its own project fields, block fields and permissions independent of Production planning.
A four-level OEE model (Production / Changeover / Machine / Total) that shows exactly where capacity is lost — not just at month-end, but during the shift.
The shop-floor tablet's large, one-tap interface uses NFC card or PIN identification — no paper, no re-typing data afterwards.
NFC / PIN identification on the shop-floor tablet
Why PlanitExo
Large buttons, one-tap logging — shop-floor staff learn it in minutes.
Developed and operated on experience from multinational factories — fast turnaround, direct communication.
Machine groups, shift patterns, downtime categories, custom fields — fitted to your structure.
What happens on the floor shows up in the office instantly — no daily/weekly lag.
Every user only sees and edits what they're authorized to.
Order import from your ERP via Excel, Factbird integration, Excel exports for your current reports — can be rolled out gradually, live.
About
PlanitExo is built on many years of experience in multinational factories. You plan and measure on an interface that helps the shop-floor operator, and the system connects to your ERP and to Factbird. It is made for series-production plants: plastics and chemical, food and component manufacturers.
The developer of PlanitExo worked for about 18 years as a process engineer at Henkel. Their professional experience covers production planning, production measurement and production logistics: they built and introduced such systems in series-production environments. PlanitExo grew out of this experience: a system that people on the production line actually use.
Pricing
Prices are indicative and exclude VAT. Both the monthly and the implementation fee depend on the number of production lines, the number of modules needed, and the number of training sessions and on-site visits. The exact fee is given in an individual quote.
Per resource (machine or production line) per month. For example, with 10 resources the monthly fee is EUR 200–600.
One-time fee. It depends on the same factors as the monthly fee. Up to 20 resources it can be introduced within 5 working days.
Good to know
Who it is for, what it costs, how it calculates OEE, and how it connects to your ERP and Factbird.
Plastics and chemical, food, component manufacturing — and project-based planning alongside series production.
When Excel is enough, when PlanitExo fits, and when you need a full MES.
Importing SAP orders from Excel, and uploading the order to Factbird at production start, from the latest plan.
Blog
One number that shows how much your machines actually deliver versus what they could — and where to start improving.
Why a spreadsheet-based schedule breaks down after a few weeks, and what a real-time, Gantt-based system solves instead.